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sapphyres-designer-jewellery · ‎09-02-2025

So I'm back, and have been reading the forum. Doing some tests to apply the changes to my future shipments to see how it's going to work, and I have problems.

My coins and stamps that are made in Canada are being charged duty/tariffs to ship to the US. I'm using codes 7118 and 9704 (I know 4907 works for stamps but Stallion will not approve that code for DDP because it's associated with fiduciary paper which has restrictions crossing the border). It gives me some error about another agency controlling the import and it can't approve.

So I'm being hit with 35% tariffs even though my coins and stamps are made in Canada. I'm particularly upset that Canadian goods are being hit with such high tariffs (worse than the China tariff now from what I read, which is currently at 30%), and CUSMA is not a way out. Stallion says that it must be on the S/S+ list to be CUSMA compliant and the two codes I use for coins and stamps do not appear on that list of HTS codes.

Another problem is Stallion wants the manufacturer information of all items which is impossible to come up with (although thanks to Numista a lot of that information is provided). Trying to get products approved for shipping is turning into some kind of nightmare, and without eBay providing discounted Tracked Packet labels I don't see any other way besides shipping with Stallion to keep the costs reasonably down.

C.

john_koenig99 · ‎09-02-2025

Have you tried registering with Zonos? It may be an option for you, for what I've read. But I have no idea if it will help you to avoid the dreaded tariffs, or not.

sapphyres-designer-jewellery · ‎09-02-2025

@john_koenig99 wrote:
Have you tried registering with Zonos? It may be an option for you, for what I've read. But I have no idea if it will help you to avoid the dreaded tariffs, or not.

I haven't tried that yet, I did read here in the forum that it worked well for some people with some shipments. I guess I have to register and do a dummy shipment to figure out if it will work for some of my product that I'm having problems shipping with Stallion.

My store is closed anyway (this one until Sept 3, need some time to get the USA shipping taken off, I have the flu, so I'm not in any hurry to turn my store back on in case things start selling).

The US store is turned off until Friday to give me time to sort out removing listings of things that are no longer profitable to ship with the tariffs. (I get that things will slip through and I'll get charged on random stuff, but we'll just have to wait that out).

Anyone successful with CUSMA compliant items? I would think my coins and stamps would be CUSMA compliant if made in Canada (like the stamps were made here, not a collection I assembled here from different countries), but I'm having no luck avoiding tariffs with those items.

I am busy jacking up the shipping prices on my US shipments to perhaps deter some US purchases while still having attractive shipping rates for everywhere else. I just don't want to move my whole US store to the Canadian site.

C.